English Literature Quiz Questions for Competitive Exams

English Literature Quiz Questions for Competitive Exams
Q :  

In his poem, Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and __________'?

(A) Glory

(B) Ruin

(C) Disaster

(D) Victory


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?

(A) Assonance

(B) Onomatopaea

(C) Rhyme

(D) Grammar


Correct Answer : D

Q :  

True or False; Writing pedates poetry.

(A) True

(B) False


Correct Answer : B

Q :  

What is the earliest surviving European poem?

(A) The Homeric epic

(B) The Gilgamesh epic

(C) The Deluge epic

(D) The Hesiodic ode


Correct Answer : A

Q :  

Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

(A) The EpicT

(B) The Comic

(C) The Occult

(D) The Tragic


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

Which is the part of the sentence which denotes the person or thing about which something is said?

(A) Predicate

(B) Subject

(C) Phrase

(D) Clauses


Correct Answer : B

Q :  

What are the study of poetry's meter and form called?

(A) Prosody

(B) Potology

(C) Rheumatology

(D) Scansion


Correct Answer : A

Q :  

Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

(A) Alliterative verse

(B) Sonnet form

(C) Iambic pentameter

(D) Dactylic hexameter


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

Who wrote this famous line: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/Thou art more lovely and more temperate _____"

(A) T S Eliot

(B) Lord Tennyson

(C) Charlotte Bronte

(D) Shakespeare


Correct Answer : D

Q :  

Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

(A) William Carlos Williams

(B) Emily Dickinson

(C) Gerard Manly Hopkins

(D) Robert Frost


Correct Answer : A

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